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Message-ID: <20140420205923.GA23991@suse.de>
Date:	Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:59:23 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robert Haas <robertmhaas@...il.com>,
	Josh Berkus <josh@...iodbs.com>,
	Andres Freund <andres@...quadrant.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable zone_reclaim_mode by default v2

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 04:48:25PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> Andrew> On Tue,  8 Apr 2014 09:22:58 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> wrote:
> >> Changelog since v1
> >> o topology comment updates
> >> 
> >> When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances
> >> punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA
> >> node. NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are NUMA-aware
> >> and it's routine to see major performance due to zone_reclaim_mode being
> >> enabled but relatively few can identify the problem.
> 
> 
> This is unclear here.  "see major performance <what> due" doesn't make
> sense to me.  
> 

Degradation

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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